Whatever happened to different routes in WoD?

Haven't seen anyone else mention this since 2.5 came out, but, anyone else remember reading 2.5 update notes and seeing,

"Each party in the alliance will receive its own treasure coffer, the contents of which will have the same possible rewards regardless of the route taken."

for WoD and wonder what happened with that? They specifically said "route taken", meaning there would be different paths to take, yet there was no change in the update notes and theres only 1 path in WoD.

>_> Tbh, it would have been nice to have multiple routes and different bosses, instead of a single path for everything in the game.

Copy and paste from CT. ST says the same thing.

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Originally Posted by Moqi

Copy and paste from CT. ST says the same thing.

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Yet still, one single path in each of those lol

I think it's meant for the three alliances, to say that the chests are the same for everyone, and there are 3 roads, at the atomos fight!

Its probably also a copy/paste from the LoTA Patch 2.1 patch notes. That's the only Tower with branching paths, sort of...

I'd love to see more branching dungeons. Right now it's basically a big corridor. Some of the older dungeons had side rooms which housed a chest or so, and I think there's literally only one which gave you a choice of route (Tam Tara Deepcroft story mode), and even then it amounted to a parallel corridor.

So, I'll chime in with my support for alternate dungeon paths. Doubly so if each route had its own different bosses. At the very least it would make repeated runs of the same dungeon more interesting and less cookie-cutter.

Dungeon you're thinking of is Toto-rak, Lemuria.

Anyway, while it would be nice, probably wouldn't work out all too well... unless they treated it similarly to T11. They could have made it so the Alliances would go down their own paths and defeat their own trash mobs and then group up together again for the boss fights. Atomos Prime (or in general) is what I like the most about WoD.

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Originally Posted by Nestama

Anyway, while it would be nice, probably wouldn't work out all too well... unless they treated it similarly to T11. They could have made it so the Alliances would go down their own paths and defeat their own trash mobs and then group up together again for the boss fights. Atomos Prime (or in general) is what I like the most about WoD.

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This is what I thought CT to be, full of branching while the parties join up for the big fights. Then come release and people see it's just the same identical corridor for everyone. LotA is not a labyrinth in any sense of the word and even the achievement mocks it for this fact.

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Originally Posted by Nestama

Dungeon you're thinking of is Toto-rak, Lemuria.

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You're so right... as you can probably tell, for me most of the really low level dungeons sort of blur into themselves after ages of doing higher level content. :D

The 24-man raids really do need some branching. Have each alliance do something different... I like fun instances, not Trash > Boss > Trash > Boss > Trash > Boss > Boss...

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Originally Posted by Nestama

They could have made it so the Alliances would go down their own paths and defeat their own trash mobs and then group up together again for the boss fights.

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I'd say they could even have their own bosses on each path too, but require all 3 pts to be at the end to do the final boss, but then you'd get the really slow/trolling pts who'd take forever to get there >_> which you know people would lol

Something like...

A -> Trash, boss -> All -> trash, boss

B -> Trash, boss -> Alliance -> trash, boss

C -> Trash, boss -> Bigger boss (lol) -> trash, boss

etc. They could even put the belts in those mini bosses, just belts though, or they could even go as far as adding accessories from the 24 man dungeon
What'd be kind of cool is if during the final boss, they had done something like, the other bosses (not the mini bosses) pop back up, weaker though, but require each alliance to fight them separately, but randomize which of them spawn and where.

i would just be happy with more OPEN ZONES , because atm CT is a huge corridor and thats it....same goes for coil and dungeons.

lets put an easy example , imagine a zone like Sky from FFXI , that at 1 step is only open the outside bosses , 2nd step is going into the tower , and final step is the top of the tower. Huge open zones = WIN , corridors with emptiness everywhere = boring

Or ulduar , after u kill the first 4 bosses u are able too choose what path to take and is huge fun and let u use mounts :P

for old Eq players ,imagine planes of power (instanced for each 8 man)

oh and for the love of hydaelyn , im so tired of every battle in coil being a lame circle.....t9 was a huge dissapointment watching the stairs and being unable to use that as battle element (1.0) .

Some boss fights have rectangle arenas. There, those are not circles.